Overview
- Supporters gathered at Daley Plaza on Monday to urge Cook County prosecutors to dismiss the case before a Tuesday morning court hearing.
- Prosecutors say Keshia Golden rejected a plea to second-degree murder that would not add jail time, and public defenders say the offer called for two years of probation.
- Golden remains charged with first-degree murder for the Oct. 22, 2022 stabbing of her boyfriend, which her lawyers say was self-defense while she was eight months pregnant.
- Case records state the knife struck Calvin Sidney’s femoral artery and he died at a hospital, and police had documented five domestic violence incidents involving the couple in the months before the killing.
- Her attorney says a trial could begin this summer if the case is not dismissed, and supporters warn a conviction could cost her housing or childcare aid and could separate her from her daughter.